I just got flooded by a bunch of conflicting reports that all started with this (believable) report that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples: Same-sex couples cannot marry in Alabama today. Despite Friday’s historic landmark Supreme Court ruling that found states cannot ban marriage from [Read More…]

Ken Paxton, the attorney general in Texas, has decided that Texas needs to get sued a bunch: County clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite last week’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said [Read More…]

Oh Bobby Jindal. He acknowledges that his state is bound by the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, but he says that because the SCOTUS didn’t give a time table that he won’t commit to when his state will start enforcing the ruling. Apparently Louisiana isn’t as sharp as other states, including Arkansas and Oklahoma for [Read More…]

The first round with LaBarbera was amusing, but he hasn’t slowed down since. He’s earned another round on the blog: BREAKING: #SCOTUS rules “gays” can now procreate by themselves. Oh they can’t do tht, can they? B/c Nature Discriminates Agnst Homosexuality — Peter LaBarbera (@PeterLaBarbera) June 26, 2015 If marriage were about procreation we’d pass [Read More…]

Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel, perhaps the dumbest lawyer in America, is not happy: It makes a mockery of the institution of marriage, something of which God alone has the authority to design & define http://t.co/0pCQxSBQ33 — Matt Barber (@jmattbarber) June 27, 2015 I don’t know, as a nation and as a people we’ve [Read More…]

The White House got in on the celebration earlier and, like any good celebration, it carries on into the night. No need for fireworks: we have exploding heads from the religious right for that. The White House is streaming the rainbow lights: I forget, who was it that said, “I have set my rainbow in [Read More…]

This is a guest post by Danielle Muscato, atheist activist, public speaker, and former Public Relations Director for American Atheists. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleMuscato and like her new Facebook page here. Today, in the long-awaited landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment requires all states to issue marriage license to same-sex couples [Read More…]

You knew it wouldn’t be long before Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (who once tried to pass an RFRA more severe than the one that got Indiana into a whole world of shit) weighed in. He thinks giving liberty to LGBT people is somehow an attack on Christians: Governor Jindal said, “The Supreme Court decision today [Read More…]

You never go full Bryan Fischer. Oh, you thought Peter Labarbera was having an epic meltdown? He needs to move over for Bryan Fischer: This is not just about religious liberty. This is about normalizing behavior which is an abomination in the sight of God. — Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) June 26, 2015 It turns out [Read More…]

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